Mitsotakis« financial history: The committee meeting and the »inadvertent filing"

The confusion with the scheduled for Wednesday meeting of the Parliament's committee on financial affairs rather than helping the obvious goal of Maximos: To «extinguish» - a little in the storm of the pandemic, a little in the August heat - the noise about the Background of the Prime Minister and his wife and the open questions that remain regarding the shareholding relationship of Mareva Grabovski-Mitsotakis with the French companySCI PersonalVentures.

The meeting of the Posten Eschede committee was long scheduled for Wednesday, with the purpose of examining the Posten Eschede of the political leaders. Suddenly, last night it was announced that the meeting was postponed and postponed until the autumn. But at noon there was a new leak that the meeting is finally «rescheduled» and will eventually meet in another room.

According to information cited by documentonews.gr, the name of Kyriakos Mitsotakis was on the list of cases under archiving, regarding the Prime Minister's couple's "Athenaeus" for the tax years 2015 to 2018. The revelation caused strong reactions, with the Southwest then claiming that «by mistake» the name of the Prime Minister was found in this list. Indeed, St. Keletsi, from the ND side, blamed an official, speaking of a «mistake».

This development, as expected, fuels even more the political conflict over Kyriakos Mitsotakis's "Background" - a conflict that escalated last night after the decision of the SYRIZA to participate in the Committee on Behavioural Data Paul Polakis - who, in any case, is an alternate member - and not the Spyros Lappas as a full member.

Immediately after the announcement by Koumoundourou, the chairman of the committee, Yannis Bouras, reportedly contacted Maximou and received instructions to postpone the meeting, as it was estimated that SYRIZA, as government sources say, had intended to «put on a Polakis show» for the Prime Minister's "Patience".

Koumoundourou's reaction was strong: «Mr Mitsotakis's background is so well-done that the government, in a panic, postponed the meeting of the competent committee scheduled for tomorrow,» SYRIZA commented, adding: «How much longer will the party of the Southwest be humiliated to cover up the illegalities and the now proven lies of its leader?».

The position of SYRIZA, now, is that illegal ownership of a French company by the Prime Minister's wife not declared in her tax returns, which according to the official opposition constitutes «a major issue of transparency, equality and democracy».

And the messages being sent out indicate that the pressure will escalate, at the «political and institutional» level, in order to provide answers to the open questions.
Here, it is also important that Koumoundourou considers as particularly serious the latest publication, by Dawn this time, of an official document of the French Companies Registry dated 20/11/2020 in which Mareva Grabovski-Mitsotaki is mentioned as the owner of the company SCIPersonalVentures.

SYRIZA sources point out that this document - now with the official seal of the French authorities - proves that the Prime Minister's wife until 8 months ago remained a major shareholder in the company in violation of the law, and had not transferred it since 2016 as she claims.

The case will have a legal follow-up, as the newspaper Documento and Kostas Vaxevanis, who had presented the first documents, responded on Wednesday with their own ext. in the two letters of formal notice sent to them by Mrs Grabowski. In the letter, the Prime Minister's wife is accused of «insulting» and »slander" and it is stated that if she does not withdraw, the case will be taken to court.

SYRIZA: «Mr Mitsotakis to abandon his ridiculous attempts to cover up»

Commenting on the developments, SYRIZA - Progressive Alliance in a statement said: «The panic of Mr Mitsotakis and the government majority is leading them from one self-deprecation to another. Yesterday, they tried to postpone indefinitely the meeting of the Committee for the Control of Property Statements, which was going to discuss Mr Mitsotakis' financial affairs at the request of SYRIZA, because allegedly there were no rooms available».

«Today, after the outcry, they called an emergency meeting and attempted to include Mr Mitsotakis“ name in a list of MPs with pending cases that would be filed. When they were again caught with the goat on their backs, they rushed to say, without a shred of dignity left, that Mr Mitsotakis” name was »inadvertently" included in the list:

«At today's meeting, the deputy head of the SYRIZA party presented all the data that have seen the light of day and formally called for a recheck of Mr Mitsotakis' statements. Finally, the service that assists the work of the Commission's Behaviour Committee will check the new data and submit a report. We warn Mr Mitsotakis to abandon his ridiculous attempts to cover up the case and the services of the Parliament to proceed with the necessary substantive control.».